Lack of food throughout the year is a leading cause of the world’s decreasing bee populations. This is what they sound like when they are buzzing, or flying, around, looking for food. During some seasons, there just is not enough nutrition in the natural environment to feed all of the bees. Also decreasing are the diversity and numbers of flowering plant species. Reasons include use of pesticide products and development of what once were rural areas. Bees, other insects and even some animals act as pollinators. They cause plants to make fruit or seeds. They do this by moving pollen, the yellow substance produced by plants, from one part of the flower of a plant to another. However, pollen is the only protein that bees eat.
Title: In Hard Times, Feed the Bees with a Mix of Flowers
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3650/bzz.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='In Hard Times, Feed the Bees with a Mix of Flowers' data-article-id='4129'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10563'>Lack of food throughout the year is a leading cause of the world’s decreasing bee populations.</span> <span data-start-time='10563' data-end-time='22833'>This is what they sound like when they are buzzing, or flying, around, looking for food.</span> <span data-start-time='22833' data-end-time='34583'>During some seasons, there just is not enough nutrition in the natural environment to feed all of the bees.</span> <span data-start-time='34583' data-end-time='43354'>Also decreasing are the diversity and numbers of flowering plant species.</span> <span data-start-time='43354' data-end-time='53542'>Reasons include use of pesticide products and development of what once were rural areas.</span> <span data-start-time='53542' data-end-time='61563'>Bees, other insects and even some animals act as pollinators.</span> <span data-start-time='61563' data-end-time='66646'>They cause plants to make fruit or seeds.</span> <span data-start-time='66646' data-end-time='79813'>They do this by moving pollen, the yellow substance produced by plants, from one part of the flower of a plant to another.</span> <span data-start-time='79813' data-end-time='85958'>However, pollen is the only protein that bees eat.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button 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